Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-06-14
THE INDIAN OUTBREAK.
General Miles and staff Depart
for the Front

, The recent outbreak of the Indians IN
Arizona, in relation TO which many dis
patches have been received recently
and which indicate that matters have
assumed a more serious shape than was
at first supposed, has called General
Miles and two members of his staff,
Lieutenants C. B. Gatewood and j. A.
Dapray, away from Los Angeles. These
gentlemen left yesterday for Tucson,
and will proceed to the front at once.
A gentleman who has Just reached Los
| Angeles from Arizona states that the
Indian outbreak in Arizona may prove
serious, provided it is true as stated in
the dispatches that the Pinal Indians
have ioined the hostiles. Eskiminzin,
who is the war chief of the Pinals, was
one of the chief lieutenants OF old
Cochise when that redoubtable warrior
was strewipg the hillsides and the val.
leys of Arizona with the corpses of
settlers. But when Captain Jeffries
made his famous treaty of peace
with Cochise aud had the
San Carlos reservation established
Eskiminzin severed his tribal relations
and settled at or near the mouth of the
Rio San Pedro with the remnant of his
band. He opened irrigating bitches,
farmed land, and by dint of thrift or pelf |
accumulated considerable wealth in the |
shape of horses and cattle. To secure |
himself in these possessions he professed |
LOYALTY to the whites and expressed re-
gret at his former murders Of them. |
Trusting to his sincerity settlers located |
ia the San Pedro valley around him, and
by honest and continued toll made com.
Portable houses and profitable homes.
But during the campaigns OF Generals
Crook and Miles they discovered that
Eskiminzin, true to his treacherous in.
stincts, was quietly supplying the hos.
tiles with ammunition, while he was
protesting friendship 20 the whites.
Being, apparently, peaceable and indie
pendent farmer, he was permitted to
visit Tucson and purchase ammunition
in large quantities, and did a prosperous
business in the sale of it to the hostiles.
The settlers came SO near catching hin,
IN the act that few of them proposed !
to end his career, but the majority pre-
vailed and he was permitted to re-
main undisturbed. Two weeks ago ,
the settlers noticed that the young
of his band displayed signs of !
uneasiness and carried with them every /
where they went their guns and full
belt of ammunition, and assumed an in.
science not before observed. 1t was
also noticed that they kept their horses
at hand, to be mounted at moments
notice. When the attention of Eskim.
inzn was called to these suspicious Cir {
cumstances he said he was afraid his
young bucks would 60 out with the San {
Carlos Indians, but was doing all he
could to prevent them from so doing s
If, as the dispatches state, the Pi. l
nal Indians are among the hes
tiles they are a portion of Eskimin-
zin's band, and there are reasons to be-
leve this bloody-handed old hypocrite
is secretly directing their movements.
If so, there is danger of massacre OF
settlers between the month of the San
Pedro and Benson. At last accounts,
the hostiles were in the Santa Catalina
Mountains, and therefor within two
hours ride of the settlers along the San
Pedro. 1t is true there are about three
hundred settlers between the mouth of
the San Pedro and Benson, but
they are scattered along a distance of
eighty miles, and therefor in no condi.
tion to make an organized and success
fnl resistance against the hostlles.
Twenty Indians could sweep the valley
and the hostiles are said to be 200
strong. The people of Arizona have
been patient, but are thoroughly aroused
to the danger of this possible outrage,
and should their fears be realized are
apt to take the matter of revenge into
their own hands and make an organized
move ageinst the Apaches and abolish
the reservation ci et armis.